§ 1893. This provision speaks for itself. Its plain object is
to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the
common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle,
privileged against all civil and military intrusion. The billetting
of soldiers in time of peace upon the people has
been a common resort of arbitrary princes, and is full of
inconvenience and peril. In the petition of right (3 Charles
I.), it was declared by parliament to be a great grievance.